Brasilia -
Six men and a boy are to be charged with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rio, police have said.
Pictures and videos of the unconscious victim were shared online in a mass rape case that has shocked Brazil and sparked protests demanding an end to violence against women in the country.
The attack took place in a poor neighbourhood in west Rio de Janiero on 21 May.
Social media posts showing men posing with the naked, semi-conscious victim, insulting her and boasting of her gang rape, began circulating on Twitter days after the assault.
”I fell asleep and woke up in a completely different place, with a man under me, one on top of me and two holding me down, on my hands,” the teenage victim said in an anonymous televised interview.
Cristiana Bento, the lead investigator in the high-profile case, had asked for the arrest of all seven people charged.
The Independent